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Nominated for President on the eighth ballot at the 1888
Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the
first "front-porch" campaigns, delivering short speeches to
delegations that visited him in Indianapolis. As he was only 5
feet, 6 inches tall, Democrats called him "Little Ben";
Republicans replied that he was big enough to wear the hat of
his grandfather, "Old Tippecanoe."

Born in 1833 on a farm by the Ohio River below Cincinnati,
Harrison attended Miami University in Ohio and read law in
Cincinnati. He moved to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and
campaigned for the Republican Party. He married Caroline Lavinia
Scott in 1853. After the Civil War--he was Colonel of the 70th
Volunteer Infantry--Harrison became a pillar of Indianapolis,
enhancing his reputation as a brilliant lawyer. [from the White
House Web site ]

Served as reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana; Col. of 7th
Ind. Vols. in the Civil War; Brevet Brigadier General of U.S.
Vols.; Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1876;
U.S. Senator from 1881 to 1887; and the twenty third President
of the U.S., from 1889 to 1893.

HARRISON, Benjamin, (great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison
[1726-1791], grandson of President William Henry Harrison, son
of John Scott Harrison of Ohio, and grandfather of WilliamHenry
Harrison [1896- ]), a Senator from Indiana and 23d President of
the United States; born in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio,
August 20, 1833; graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
in 1852; studied law in Cincinnati; moved to Indianapolis in
1854; was admitted to the bar and practiced; reporter of the
decisions of the supreme court of the State; served in the Union
Army during the Civil War; brevetted brigadier general and
mustered out in 1865; while in the field in October 1864 was
reelected reporter of the State supreme court and served four
years; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana
in 1876; appointed a member of the Mississippi River Commission
in 1879; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; chairman, Committee
on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Forty-seventh
Congress), Committee on Territories (Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses); elected President of the United States
in 1888; inaugurated on March 4, 1889, and served until March 3,
1893; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892; attorney
for the Republic of Venezuela in the boundary dispute between
Venezuela and Great Britain in 1900; died in Indianapolis, Ind.,
March 13, 1901; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Waddy THOMPSON

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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin,
3rd ed., 1886. Metcalfe County. JOSEPH SOUTH was born September
17, 1844, in Knox County, Tenn., where he was reared to man's
estate, and at the age of eighteen years, removed to Metcalfe
County, Ky., where he has since resided. During his residence in
Tennessee he was conscripted and forced into the Confederate
service; remained in Forrest's army one year, participating in
the battles of that general, and had some narrow escapes from
death in the field. Tillman South, his father, was born in
Spartanburg County, S. C., and is now living near Joseph. He is
the son of Henry South, also a native of South Carolina, whose
father was Benjamin, Jr. Benjmain Jr.'s father was Benjmin
South, Sr., of Pittsylvania County, Va., a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, who endured great hardships and privations
for his country's cause. He was at one time six days without
food except a small piece of horse-flesh. He died at the age of
one hundred and six years. Tillman South married Rachel,
daughter of Elias and Rachel (Cole) Stallcup, and their
offspring are James M., Joseph, Charles C., John, Samuel,
Margaret (Rock), Caroline (Wells), Elizabeth (Jolly), William L.
(deceased), and Thomas. July 9, 1867, Joseph maried Saram H.,
daughter of Waddy and Mary E. (Burks) Thompson, of Metcalfe
County (born 1844), and to them have been born George T., Rachel
E., Mary T., Joseph C., Eugene, John W. and Verna B. Dependent
on his own exertions Mr. South has by industry and frugality
secured an ample competency; he is a farmer and owns 167 acres
of well improved land in good state of cultivation. In his
church relations Mr. South is a Baptist, and being an original
Republican in politics; first voted for Lincoln, and each
successful candidate for president since, except the last one.
Burks Cole Forrest Jolly Lincoln Rock South Stallcup Thompson
Wells = Knox-TN Pittsylvania-VA Spartanburg-SC